Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-12-02

iege, delivered AT Tue OpeId llou'S ii"iS-
day night during the Thanksgiving enter
tainment of the Catholic Young Mems
Union was so concise and pointed that we
are glad to be able to present it to our
readers this morning:
"s1GNs OF THE TIMES"
A man who knew human nature well
has said that all the worlds a stage and
all the men and women merely players.
Might he not have added that rs each
succeeding age appears it claims as the
most important of all its own peculiar part
in the great drama of human history
He alone who knows whence comes the
tempest that lashes the bosom of the
deep pliuG its waters mountains nigh, has
a true knowledge of the causes that make
nations sway from one path to the other
in the pursuit Of their destiny. Some
ages are periods of sowing and planting,
others of reapiug and harvesting. 1T Is
difficult to beotOW on each one IT'S Just
mee1 of Importance in the production OF
good or evil. The attempt may he uselul
but it can not be wholly successful. The
only feature common to all was the feeling
that they wee preparing the way for
something higher and better. The age in
which We live does not yield to its prede-
UessOrs in self esteem. Li-e the men of
other days we too are reaching out toward
Il goal higher aud nobler. Like them we
wonder what the morrow will bring
forth, like them we are Living in eNpec-
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world is contained in the condition of
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